Oil-can or other vessel



(No Model.)

A. R. W. KNIGHT.

OIL CAN OR OTHER VESSEL.

No. 379,517. Patented Mar. 13, 1888. 7 1 19.4.

UNITED STATES AARON R. W. KNIGHT, OF FEASTERVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA} OIL-CAN OR OTHER VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,517, dated March 13, 1888. Application filed December 12, 1887. Serial No. 257,631. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AARON R. W. KNIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Feasterville, Bucks county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Cans, Demijohns, and other Vessels, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in oil-cans; and it consists in the details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation and partial vertical section of an oil-can embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of an oil-can, so termed, the same being formed of a glass vessel closed on all sides, including the top, excepting at the places occupied by' the supply-cap B and dischargespout 0, said cap and spout being screwed, respectively, to collars a b, which are formed with the top of the vessel. Surrounding the vessel is a guard, D, formed of a cage of wires, E, extending in the direction of the height of the vessel, and bands or rings F, which embrace the vessel and have the wires E connected with them, the vertical wires of the guard being continued below the vessel, forming,with a wire ring secured thereto, a foot or base for standing purposes.

The vessel A is shown in the drawings as having a peripheral shoulder near the lower portion thereofiwhereby the said vessel is readily sustained on one of the bands F of the cage.

To the guard is secured the bail or handle G, the connection of which with the guard, it will be seen,is at a point between the top and be readily seen through the guard, and as it is of material liable to be broken when struck it is guarded against the same by the cage,which, as will be seen, is set out from the vessel and prevents blows from reaching the latter.

The guard is applicable to demijohns and other vessels, its shape being made to conform to the contour of the body thereof.

I am aware that it is not new to inclose a glass vessel in a cage or holder formed of wire, and such I do not claim; but I am not aware that it is old to form one in combination with a cage having the bails attached, as herein indicated. Neither is it thought to be old to form the base or the foot of the cage, as herein described, or to provide the bottle with a shoulder, for the purpose set forth.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An oil-can or other vessel consisting of a glass body having a peripheral shoulder on its lower portion and a supply-cap and nozzle on its upper end and provided with a guard formed of wires extending in the direction of the length of the body and below the same, the lower ends of said wires being connected to a wire ring, the bands F, secured to said wires, the peripheral shoulder of the body resting on the lower of said bands, and a bail secured to the guard between the top and center of the sides thereof, said parts being combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

AARON R. W. KNIGHT. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. 1?. JENNINGS. 

